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Example sentences for "nursemaids"

Lexicographically close words:
nuri; nurse; nursed; nurseling; nursemaid; nurseries; nursery; nurseryman; nurserymen; nurses
  1. Nursemaids and children, bicyclists and others passed constantly to and fro.

  2. He often watched the troops of nursemaids and children whom he met during his afternoon strolls.

  3. It is true, that the nursemaids endangered the lives of their charges, by holding them over the side of the pit in which he was kept; but as none did fall, they continued to amuse themselves and their nurslings at the same risk.

  4. From that time York acquired confidence, and lost his timidity; he first walked out with the nursemaids and children, and then accompanied his master.

  5. Children were playing on the gravel; governesses and nursemaids were sitting on the seats; little girls were running about along the steps of the Temple of Theseus and under its colonnade.

  6. Several nursemaids also happened along to give their charges a peep at the American school, and a crowd of citizens peered in at doors and windows and made audible remarks about the new institution.

  7. A huddled and heated knot of nurses and nursemaids tried to help their charges, while every minute more little boys and more little girls and more bigger girls pushed their way in and made the confusion worse.

  8. There was a general scamper as the nurses and the nursemaids and the old boys and the old girls hurried from the room, leaving Michael and two other boys, both about two years older than himself, to survey each other with suspicion.

  9. The carriage was now bowling comfortably along a wide tree-shaded avenue bordered on either side by stretches of greenery which were dappled with children and nursemaids and sedate little girls with bobbing pigtails.

  10. Restless boys scramble to and fro, quiet nursemaids loiter, and a vagrant has sat down to rest though the bank is dripping with autumn rain.

  11. The nursemaids quite believed it, and I believed it myself, till the first week I went to school.

  12. And the nursemaids had always listened so willingly!

  13. Oh, yes, they do,--nursemaids especially.

  14. The day was cold, but bright, hence quite a number of persons were walking there, together with the usual crowd of nursemaids with the children of the well-to-do from the Hyde Park and Kensington districts.

  15. The white caps of the nursemaids bent over and ribbons fluttered about the child's head as they tried to console her.

  16. He was walking in an agitated way across the Jardin des Tuileries, full of little children and women with dogs on leashes and nursemaids with starched white caps, when he met Genevieve Rod and her mother.

  17. To Stella, in the midst of his political warfare, he could write with the playfulness that nursemaids use for children, and most men keep for their kittens or puppies.

  18. In one place, where there are several big shops which stretch down one side of the street, with very pretty windows full of beautiful things, many nursemaids come to wheel babies in perambulators.

  19. She herself was not in the least likely to be seized with a desire to sit under trees in an atmosphere heavy with nursemaids and children.

  20. There were very few nursemaids with their charges in the place when she reached it about an hour later.

  21. The military element filling the streets engendered a spirit of caution with regard to nursemaids in the minds of their employers.

  22. Illustration: The Petit Luxembourg] The gardens of the Luxembourg form another of those favourite Paris playgrounds for nursemaids and their charges.

  23. Then nursemaids with perambulators pass, followed by a lady in expensive garments, who talks volubly to her two pretty daughters.

  24. Some of those cases of which mention has previously been made, in which nursemaids and other female servants seduce boys to the practice of masturbation, belong to this category; but this does not exhaust cases of such a nature.

  25. But in some cases--and these are more numerous than is commonly supposed--nursemaids do this under the impulse of their own lustful feelings.

  26. Two nursemaids appear in the field of danger.

  27. The nursemaids and the butcher's boy must assuredly have perished unless they happened to have their wits about them.

  28. On the broad sidewalks women in low shoes that defied the wind, and men in high hats that the wind defied; nursemaids trim as deaconesses, and their charges the beautiful exotic children of pure milk and pure sunshine!

  29. Children in blue rompers burrowed and jangled their painted spades and pails; nursemaids planted umbrellas in the sand and watched their charges romp; parasols flashed past like gay-colored meteors.

  30. It was very quiet all around me; down near the Queen's arbour two nursemaids were trundling their perambulators; otherwise, there was not a creature anywhere in sight.

  31. The day began to decline, the sun sank, it commenced to rustle lightly in the trees around, and the nursemaids who sat in groups near the parallel bars made ready to wheel their perambulators home.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nursemaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.